Anthropology in the city : methodology and theory / edited by Italo Pardo, Giuliana B. Prato.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction: The contemporary significance of anthropology in the city / Italo Pardo and Guiliana B. Prato -- Comparative reflections on fieldwork in urban India : a personal account / Jonathan Parry -- Exercising power without authority : powerful elite implode in urban Italy / Italo Pardo -- Skopje as a research site : issues of methodology and representation / Ilká Thiessen -- Contested spaces : street vendors in the Andean metropole of Cusco, Peru / Linda J. Seligmann -- Celebrating urban diversity in a rainbow nation : political management of ethno-cultural differences in a Malaysian city / Christian Giordano -- Political manipulation : death, dying and funeral processes in Northern Ireland / Marcello Mollica -- Between the verandah and the mall : fieldwork and the spaces of femininity / Henrika Donner -- On urban anthropology in contemporary China / Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen -- Urban anthropological research : old spaces and new ways of living / Fernando Monge.

With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. Anthropology in the City brings together a leading team of anthropologists to address the complex methodological and theoretical challenges posed by field-research in urban settings, clearly identifying the significance of the anthropological paradigm in urban research and its centrality both to mainstream acade.

English.

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